AUGUST
As the sun set everything changed.
AUGUST is inspired by sunsets. A moment between day and night. A space between routine and release, restraint and recklessness.
Bathed in the fading colours of dusk and the neon accents of night, the National Dance Company Wales dancers navigate a sensual landscape that shifts between the perilous and the beautiful.
AUGUST is about endings and saying goodbye. It is about the changes that fling us together and tear us apart.
2024
SANCTUARIUM
Our minds as a placer our most precious thoughts, memories and self. A place for our most fragile and chaotic thinking. For all we don’t share, for imagination, fear, hope and love.
SANCTUARIUM is a commissioned work for NEXT DAF Roma.
Choreographer / Matthew William Robinson
Assistant / Mario Manara
2024
SEPTEMBER
To hold on, to be pulled away, to let go.
SEPTEMBER is about wanting to live in a moment forever, and the relentless pace of life dragging us forwards. It is about love and saying goodbye. It is a physical poem and a cascade of emotions.
An artistic collaboration with music producer Torben Lars Sylvest, designer George Hampton Wale, and the artists of National Dance Company Wales.
2023
love to destroy
We are never still. Our bones reach, our blood streams and our nerves burn. Our body changes, blooms and decays.
Love to destroy is about the possibility of letting go, of all we know, and if necessary rejecting who we have been told we are.
It is about change, control, saying yes wholeheartedly and saying no firmly. It is a poem, a moment, a series of emotions; a reminder to feel.
2021
Sharol Mackenzie in NEVERSINK / Photography by Nicole Guarino
NEVERSINK
NEVERSINK is about embracing life and transformation. It follows one person through a series of worlds, of fantasies that form and disintegrate around them.
Despite the chaos that surrounds us, the pressure, the absurdity, can we still take brave steps into the unknown? Can we approach the world with youthful, hopeful eyes?
Dedicated to my father, Graham Robinson
Cracked Nuts
A full length cabaret remake of The Nutcracker by Glitterbomb Dancers touring again, Winter 2023.
Co-direction / Joseph Mercier, Imogen Reeve and Matthew William Robinson
Co-creation and Performance / Glitterbomb Dancers
Hosting / Tessa Parr aka Johnny the Biblical Rapper
CALIFORNIA
‘Awakened at dawn trying to run away, Got caught dream, Shop-lifting’ Allen Ginsberg (1984)
A series of filmed solos created in collaboration, at distance.
COLLABorATIONS WITH PERFORMERS / Theo Arran, Dorna Ashory, MAYA CARROLL and Luigi Nardone
DIRECTION and EDIT / Matthew William Robinson
Other work
COMMISSIONED WORK
Go
National Dance Company Wales Young ASSOCIATES
NO-SHOW
NatioNal dance company wales
FOAL
Northern School of Contemporary Dance
While we wait and BETWEEN FOUR WALLS
Royal Conservatoire Scotland
Office
Project Y
Camping, AFTER RAIN, Party, What we leave behind and TRemors
West College Scotland
May Day and For a second i stood
THE SPACE (scottish School of Contemporary Dance)
Love?
Scottish Dance Theatre ‘Park’
Balloons
Scottish dance theatrE 'Backstage Pass'. improvisation score for Performers/audience
COLLABORATIVE WORK
CRACKED NUTS (2022) for Glitterbomb Dancers, CO-DIRECTED by JOSEPH MERCIER, IMOGEN REEVE and MATTHEW William ROBINSON
SWEAT (2022) in collaboration with Joseph Mercier and Glitterbomb Dancers
Why wait for what, for wait for when (2012) In collaboration with Toby Fitzgibbons for Scottish Dance Theatre
Some other future (2011) In collaboration with Toby FitzgibbonS for Scottish Dance Theatre
INDEPENDENT WORK